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The South African Agency for Science and Technology Advancement (SAASTA) aims to advance public awareness, appreciation and engagement of science, engineering and technology in South Africa.

 
 
PUB/SAASTA call for interest

PUB/SAASTA call for interest

The Public Understanding of Biotechnology (PUB) programme at SAASTA invites suitable candidates to respond to a call for interest on a DVD production of Basic Biotechnology facilitation.

Please see the call for more details.

The deadline for responding is at the close of business on 22 January 2010.

 
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2009 SA Calling young scientists!

Calling young scientists!

Grab this chance to stir the public's imagination and win wonderful prizes.
Enter the Young Science Communicators' Competition now!

 
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2009 SA Science Lens winners announced

2009 SA Science Lens winners announced!

The entries in this year's SA Science Lens competition represented a wide range of science areas and many techniques were used to capture them, from state-of-the-art electron microscopes to digital and standard cameras. View the winning entries!

 
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Sci-Bono Relief Teachers

Relief Teachers

Sci-Bono seeks to register and train a group of relief teachers whose role will be to temporarily take the place of school teachers selected for training. Relief teachers will spend limited periods at a time, in school classrooms in a care-taker role, while the selected teachers are away on training.

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Smart Interactive Board for top Dinaledi School

This year, SMART will provide the Dinaledi School which tops the SAASTA National Science Olympiad a SMART Board interactive whiteboard at a value of R 50 000.

For more information on the National Science Olympiad click here; for a project description of the National Science Olympiad, click here.

 
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2009 African Science Communication Conference (ASCC)
2009 African Science Communication Conference (ASCC) Presentations

Theme: Shaping Africa's future - science communication's contribution to science, technology and innovation, and the development of democracy in Africa

To view the presentations, visit:
http://www.saasta.ac.za/ascc/2009/

 
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View previous News in Brief items posted on this page.

thumb Latest EasyScience Fun experiments, puzzles & more
NRF Space Workshop report and presentations now available
Join SASCON, a free email network for those in the field of science communication
Public Understanding of Biotechnology (PUB) - learn more about biotechnology!
2nd ASCC 2009
International Polar Year 2007-2008
International Year of Astronomy 2009
Planet Earth 2007-2009
SAASTA Schools Debates



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